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The art & practice of typography : a manual of American printing, including a brief history up to the twentieth century, with reproductions of the work of early masters of the craft, and a practical discussion and an extensive demonstration of the modern use of type-faces and methods of arrangement (1917)

Gress, Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger), 1872-1934 · New York : Oswald Pub. Co. · leaf 40

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sacred pictures necessitated amethod of reproduction more rapid than the old; and thusengraved wood blocks were introduced. As the desire for knowledge outgrew the productiveresources of the russet-gowned scribes, men with a me-chanical turn of mind began to engrave pages of bookson wooden blocks,… … IMAGE PRINT OF 1423The first block print with a date 7 8 THE ART AND PRACTICE OF TYPOGRAPHY »«mttt©eln^efl^K)/ft^lc5tIumn»mutpaabotm bmrittSmfitfmc vmiSlifftom called, sometimes contained whole pages of reading mat-ter, each letter cut in relief on the face of the wood, andfrequently the page…

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